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Tough Love for America

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 4, 2020

Got a nice July 4 surprise when A History of America in Ten Strikes was included in this Powell’s Books list: “Read Like a Patriot: 9 Books of Tough Love for America.” It’s impossible to understand American history in its totality without considering our country’s tumultuous relationship with labor practices and unions. Historian Erik Loomis’s […]

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Pessimistic Militancy

By Erik Loomis

On March 21, 2019

I have to say that I’m pretty blown away by Richard Yeselson’s long-form review in The Nation of A History of America in Ten Strikes. Like any good review, he goes into what I try to do an

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Live and Direct…From Minnesota!

By Erik Loomis

On February 16, 2019

I am going to be in the Twin Cities on Thursday for a talk and discussion about the book. The Twin Cities DSA is hosting it so it will be an interesting conversation between the different interest gro

Rhode Island’s Heavy News Cycle

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 21, 2018

A lot is happening in Rhode Island these days. You can tell, since for some reason the Providence Journal decided that my life was worth a big profile. Why reading about me would be remotely interesting is completely beyond me, but hey, whatever. At least graves were discussed, if not ketchup. I was also on […]

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Ten Strikes: Providence Talk

By Erik Loomis

On November 24, 2018

Happy to announce that I will be speaking about A History of America in Ten Strikes in Providence this Tuesday at 5. The details are in the image above. I do have a couple of future talks coming up as

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Fighting the New Gilded Age

By Erik Loomis

On October 24, 2018

I haven’t been posting much, just as I haven’t been doing most of the normal things in my life, because of an overwhelming teaching load that has reached critical mass now that midterms an

Live from New York: Me!

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 9, 2018

My new book has now been out for 1 week and is selling some copies, so that’s pretty cool. It reached almost #2000 at Amazon at one point, which is really high for a book like this. Since there is no money for a book tour, which is related to the fact that nobody buys […]

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Reviews and Events

By Erik Loomis

On September 20, 2018

There is a review of my new book in The New Republic. It’s in the print edition so you have to sign up for the newsletter to get access to it, but I can excerpt it here. There were clearly momen